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'''Fiction''' is an invented or feigned [[narrative]] (an imaginative form of narrative).<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2007-11-12|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/FICTION|format=HTML|language=English|work=Dictionary.com|title=fiction}}</ref> Fiction is one of the two most general categories in the hierarchy in which [[book]]s are classified, the other being [[non-fiction]] — a composition that its authors believe to be truthful. | '''Fiction''' is an invented or feigned [[narrative]] (an imaginative form of narrative).<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2007-11-12|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/FICTION|format=HTML|language=English|work=Dictionary.com|title=fiction}}</ref> Fiction is one of the two most general categories in the hierarchy in which [[book]]s are classified, the other being [[non-fiction]] — a composition that its authors believe to be truthful. | ||
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Fiction differs from [[lie|lying]] because the listener knows the story isn't true. | Fiction differs from [[lie|lying]] because the listener knows the story isn't true. | ||
Revision as of 22:39, May 28, 2010
Fiction is an invented or feigned narrative (an imaginative form of narrative).[1] Fiction is one of the two most general categories in the hierarchy in which books are classified, the other being non-fiction — a composition that its authors believe to be truthful.
Fiction differs from lying because the listener knows the story isn't true.